Sabtu, 30 Juni 2012

If you have
an online business and you give quotes to your customers for custom jobs then
you probably use some form of an invoicing system to collect the money from the
customers.

You have most
probably used or are currently using PayPal in some capacity to receive
payments for your products or services. PayPal is the most popular payment
gateway for online merchants and consumers alike and is used by tens of
millions of people to sell products from their websites.

Apart from
giving you the ability to accept payments from customers via “Add to Cart” or
“Buy Now” buttons on your site, PayPal also has functionality which makes it
possible for you to create and send invoices directly from your PayPal account.

The invoice
functionality offered by PayPal is free and is a somewhat overlooked and
seemingly little known feature.

PayPal’s
invoicing feature can be a very useful tool for anybody who wishes to request a
payment from someone in a professional manner. This is in contrast to the
simpler “Request Money” feature which is also available from your PayPal
account and which allows for a basic message requesting payment to be sent to
anybody with an email address.

As we’ll see
in the example below, with the PayPal invoicing feature, you can tailor your
invoices to look official and professional and hence add that extra touch of
quality to how you request payments from your clients.

The added
beauty of using PayPal’s invoices is that they not only allow people to pay you
using their PayPal account, but they also make it possible for people to send
money even if they don’t have an account with PayPal but they simply want to
pay using their credit or debit card.